Diffusion apparatus.



No. 860,810. PATENTED JULY 23. 1907.

' JUNGER.

DIFFUSION APPARATUS APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 1907.

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FRIEDRICH VON KLAUDY AND FRANZ JUNGER, OF REGENSBURG, GERMANY.

DIFFUSION APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1907.

Application filed February 26, 1907- Serial No. 359,415.

To all whom iL may concern:

Be it known that we, FRIEDRICH BITTER VON KLAUDY, manager, and FRANZJUNGER chief engineer, subjects of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary,residing at Rcgensburg, Germany, and at Weinburge, Bohemia,Austria-I-Inngary, respectively, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Diffusion Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification.

Diffusion apparatus, for the extraction of sugar from sliced beet-rootand other materials, furnished with a lateral exit near the bottom ofthe shell have hitherto been discharged by the exhausted slices beingcleared out by hand labor.

Our invention relates to an improvement in diffusers, by means of whichthe discharge is effected mechanically that is, without the employmentof manual labor, whereby a difficult and at the same time unhealthyoperation is obviated and the discharging process rendered more rapid.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in whichFigure I shows in vertical section a diffuser fitted with the newapparatus, Fig. 2 being a horizontal section of Figv 1. v

In the diffuser, a rotary sieve or perforated false bottom a is located.This false bottom is carried by the driving shaft c and is supported onballs or rollers b or the like, which run on the real bottom of thediffuser. Above the false bottom a is a fixed radial clearer is, securedto the shell of the diffuser, adjacent to the discharge aperture f.

The operation of discharging is as follows:After completion of theextraction process, the lateral discharge aperture f, located at thelevel of the false bottom a, is opened and pressure water let in at theopposite aperture 6. This water flows through the outlet f and washesaway the slices of beet lying on the false bottom a between the inlet 6and outletf. If the false bottom a is now set in rotation, all parts ofit move in succession into the line ef and in this manner the entirecontents of the diffuser are discharged. The clearer 7; stops the slicesof beet brought before the outlet f by the rotating false bottom c.

Having thus described our invention we claim as new:

and an bottom a diffuser, in combination, a shell having; an inletoutlet near the bottom, a rotary perforated l'alsc located at the levelof the said outlet, and means located at the latter, for stopping theexhausted material carried round by the revolving false bottom andaiding in its discharge, substantially as described.

2. In diffusor, in combination, a shell having an inlet and an outletnear the bottom, a rotary perforated false bottom located at the levelof the said apertures, a vertical driving shaft carrying the falsebottom, and a radial clearer secured to the shell at the outlet, for thepurpose of stopping the exhausted material on the false bottom andaiding in its discharge, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we athxed our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

FRIEDRICH VON KLAUDY. FRANZ JUNGER.

Witnesses ADOLPH Frscrmn, ZUTENKO Smut K.

